[lldb-dev] Synchronous execution with process plugin

[jingham at apple.com]

I'm not sure it is deadlocking the debugger.  lldb is just waiting for a stop.  For instance ^C should interrupt it, or sending a signal externally to the process, or triggering a breakpoint or crash, etc.  

Actually, Greg must have fixed the bug I was remembering, because this works correctly for me with TOT lldb.

What happens for you if your .lldbinit has:

file a.out
break set -n main
run

For me this stops at the breakpoint at main.  We still have a little clean up to do here, because I don't see the stop notification in this case.  I see:

 > lldb -S cmds.lldb 
(lldb) command source -s 1 'cmds.lldb'
4 locations added to breakpoint 1
(lldb) 

but if I then do "bt" I'm sitting at main:

(lldb) bt
* thread #1: tid = 0x1bf8a4, function: main , stop reason = breakpoint 1.1
  * frame #0: 0x0000000100018e87 Sketch`main at SKTMain.m:17
    frame #1: 0x00007fff94f445ad libdyld.dylib`start
    frame #2: 0x00007fff94f445ad libdyld.dylib`start

Not sure what's up with the stutter at start either.  But that's a different rabbit to chase...

Jim


> On Mar 20, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> 
> If that's the case, then a .lldbinit file like this:
> 
> file a.out
> run
> 
> Will deadlock the debugger, because the real stop never comes?
> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:35 PM <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
> That's the stop at entry stop.  The code you quoted is in a block that starts with:
> 
>         if (launch_info.GetFlags().Test(eLaunchFlagStopAtEntry) == false)
>         {
> 
> So we've stopped at the entry point, but the user didn't want to know about that, so we resume and wait for a "real" stop.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> > On Mar 20, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a little confused.  You said that in synchronous execution, Launch won't return until the process has stopped.  That makes sense, but it already checks that the process has stopped once regardless of whether synchronous execution is set.  Then, it calls PrivateResume() (even if synchronous_execution is set), and then waits for the process to stop again?  What would trigger this second stop?  Target::Launch already asked it to resume, so now it's happily running while Target::Launch is waiting for it to stop a second time.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:23 PM <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
> > In synchronous execution, the "Launch" command won't return till the process has stopped.  The point of synchronous execution is that you can do:
> >
> > break set -n foo
> > run
> > bt
> >
> > So "run" can't return till the breakpoint has been hit.  That is why it waits for the process to stop.  I'm not quite sure why this is done in Target::Launch, in other cases (e.g. in for "step" and "continue" the command object is the one that takes care of waiting for the stop.  Launch is a little funny however, because it can't use the normal process wait mechanism to do its job since the real process isn't alive when it has to start waiting...
> >
> > I think the reason you are hanging here is that the code that reads in all the init statements runs an event loop temporarily while it is reading them in, and the kills that and hands off the the real command execution loop, and this continuation gets lost in the handoff.  I thought Greg had already fixed that, but maybe it's still sitting in his queue.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 20, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I ran into an issue earlier where I tried to make a .lldbinit file with some lines like this:
> > >
> > > file a.out
> > > run
> > >
> > >
> > > When this happens the process runs, the breakpoint gets hit and I see the source listing, it returns to the lldb prompt, but then I can't type anything.  It appears LLDB is deadlocked inside of Target::Launch() at the following location:
> > >
> > >                 if (!synchronous_execution)
> > >                     m_process_sp->RestoreProcessEvents ();
> > >
> > >                 error = m_process_sp->PrivateResume();
> > >
> > >                 if (error.Success())
> > >                 {
> > >                     // there is a race condition where this thread will return up the call stack to the main command
> > >                     // handler and show an (lldb) prompt before HandlePrivateEvent (from PrivateStateThread) has
> > >                     // a chance to call PushProcessIOHandler()
> > >                     m_process_sp->SyncIOHandler(2000);
> > >
> > >                     if (synchronous_execution)
> > >                     {
> > >
> > > state = m_process_sp->WaitForProcessToStop (NULL, NULL, true, hijack_listener_sp.get(), stream);
> > >                         const bool must_be_alive = false; // eStateExited is ok, so this must be false
> > >                         if (!StateIsStoppedState(state, must_be_alive))
> > >                         {
> > >                             error.SetErrorStringWithFormat("process isn't stopped: %s", StateAsCString(state));
> > >                         }
> > >                     }
> > >                 }
> > >
> > > Normally when I'm using LLDB and entering the commands myself, this synchronous_execution value is not set, and everything works as expected.  How is this supposed to work?  What does my plugin need to do differently in order to handle this case?  The process has already stopped once and resumed, so I'm not sure why it would need to stop again?  I see that it's not restoring process events in the case of synchronous execution, so maybe it should have never resumed in the first place? _______________________________________________
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